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Before installing ATI RADEON 7500 Graphics Support, you must remove any graphics
support layered product kits (such as the PowerStorm 300/350 or PowerStorm
4DxxT kits) from the system. After you have installed ATI RADEON 7500
Graphics Support, if you upgrade or reinstall the operating system, you must first
de-install ATI RADEON 7500 Graphics Support. Once the operating system
update has completed, you may reinstall ATI RADEON 7500 Graphics Support.
Do not install the PowerStorm 300/350, or PowerStorm 4DxxT kit in addition to ATI
RADEON 7500 Graphics Support. Installing any of these kits after installing ATI RADEON
7500 Graphics Support may cause unpredictable results.
Alternate Console
Instead of using the graphics display as the system console, it is possible to attach an
external ASCII terminal to serial port 1 and have console interactions take place on that
device. This is done at the boot prompt (>>>).
To use an external terminal, the commands are:
>>> set console serial
>>> init
To return to the graphics display as console, the commands are:
>>> set console graphics
>>> init
3.5.2
Installing ATI RADEON 7500 Graphics Support
You must have super-user ("root") privileges to perform most operations described below.
Login as root before continuing.
Copying the Kit from CD-ROM
This section describes the procedure for copying the ATI RADEON 7500 Graphics Support
kit from a CD-ROM distribution. The kit is distributed as a tar file with the extension tar.
If you have downloaded the kit from another source, simply copy it into the /var/tmp/
directory and skip to the next section. The installation instructions below assume the name
of the distribution file is RAD540.tar, and that you will be installing on Tru64 UNIX
Version 5.1B. Installation of the kit for other versions will be similar.
In the following instructions, cdrom0 is the CD-ROM disk drive and /mnt is a free
mount point. Follow these instructions to copy the kit from a CD-ROM drive:
1. Place the CD-ROM media in the appropriate disk drive.
2. Mount the media on a free mount point by entering the following command:
# mount -r /dev/disk/cdrom0c /mnt
3-8 ATI RADEON 7500 AGP and PCI Graphics Controllers
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